The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-01-05
Discpssinr the mooted question when

months, but anv time from the middle OF
July to fist of November is generally
safc
The coming buttermaker, according to
the National Stockmqn, must have clean
mouth and breath as we'll as clean clothes
and clean apron, be honest, neat,
smart, level-headed and able to Keep
accounts.
Burn all rubbish not suitable for the
compost heap, such as bones, old boots
and shoes, barrels, &C., and scatter the
ashes over the garden. 1t will make a
surprising difference with its fertility IN
the spring.
Chlorate of potash, much used in fam
lilies for cold, is recommended OF late
for keeping fowls from Group and colds.
it's put into the drinking water, which
will dissolve a certain proportion OF II
and no more.
Commenting on the opposition OF Fro:
fessors Brown and Sanborn to the use OF
ensilage, the editor of the American
Dairynsan says: "The poorest ensilage
we have ever seen has been in the silos
of agricultural colleges"
While milk is standing for cream to
rise, the purity of the cream, and conse.
quentlv the fine flavor and keeping OF
the butter, will be injured if the surface
of the cream is exposed freely to air
much warmer than the cream.
A writer in the Kansas Farmer says
there is very simple remedy for tape
worm in sheep. Take squash or pump
kin seeds, crush them and boil them IN
sufficient water to make strong tea
Give each lamb two or three teaspoon
fulls in cup of water. Ifpreferred, the
seeds NAV be crushed and mixed with
ground grain, allowing handful to fifty
lambs.
A top. dressing for any crop remaining
in the ground through the winter should
furnish manure and shelter both, and it
answers these purposes best when 1t Is
of course material and contains fcrtillZ-
ing matter. Coarse manure with con-
siderable litter in it is the best form OF
top.dressing; if it is not to be procured,
swamp muck makes a good substitute.
with the addition of liberal quantity OF
fine bone flour, wood ashes and plaster.
diseases are often communicated by
feeding horses in stalls which have been
occupied previously by diseased animals.
Such stalls should first be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected. To do this take
a pint of sulphuric acid and put it in q
bucket of water. Then, with an old mop
wash all parts of the STALL especially the
trough or manger. All stalls should be
occasionally so disinfectcd, as their con-
slant use permits them to gradually be-
come unfit abodes of the animals.
The first prize on eggs preserved for
three months at the London dairy show
was won on a lot of eggs packed in sweet
bran with the small ends down. The Sec
ond prize lot had been rubbed with q
mixture of olive oil and beeswax and
packed in coarse salt The third prize
lot had been rubbed, when new laid,
with mutton dipping, and then put in
powdered dry lime. All these were in
good condition for cooking at the end OF
ninety days.
Give the soil plenty of phosphorous,
potash and lime and humus, and with
complete pulvcrizing and active and IN
telligent cultivation it will draw from
| the atmosphere and from the soil nitro
gen, oxygen, carbonic acid and other at
mospberic plant food, and make good
crops. AS the atmosphere is four-tifths
nitrogen, the supply of nitrogen for
crops is inexhaustible. And the nitro
gen of commerce, is the most costly as
we'll as the most valuable for crops of all
the ingredients of which commercial
fertilizers are composed.
The best way to feed mangolds, says
Professor Stewart, is to run them through
a pulper and then mix this pulp with the
ration of grain or ground feed and cut
hay. This beet pulp will not only give
relish to the feed, but it contains poetic
acid, which is digester of other food.
Four quarts of this pulp given twice per
day is sufficient to accomplish the great
benefit for which roots should be fed-to
cleanse the stomach, prevent constipation
and act as digester for other food. The
mixing in with other food is the true way
to feed roots. When fed alone and in q
large quantity roots are poor food, but
as small part of the ration they have
an important office.
If your plants should freeze, as soon
as you discover il put them in dark
room, or the cellar, where the tempera-
ture is but little above freezing and
sprinkle thoroughly with cold water.
In most cases, such plants as geraniums,
abutilons and the more hardy kinds can
be saved in this way, and often quite
tender kinds will come out with Little or
no in Jury. The frost must be extracted
gradually and with application Of as
little heat as possible. Keep them away
from the light and warmth for two or
three days. If the tops should wilt, you
may feel certain that they cannot be
saved, so cut them off at once. The
roots may not be damaged much, and if
they are not, they will soon send up
sprouts.
Domestic animals, especially growing
stock. do not thrive without copious
supply of light. Fattening stock put on
plenty of weight in darkness, but this is
not thrift; it is cruelty, and their flesh is
not tit for human consumption. Clean
illness may be observed G) by keeping
the stalls clean, and (2) by cleaning the
animals themselves. Animals breathe,
as it were, through the pores of the skin,
as we'll as by means of their lungs.
Dirt stops up these pores and throws
greater burdens upon the lungs, promot-
ing disease and acting prejudicially to
the products as food for human con-
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